Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felix 's wife began to recite her poetry , and wondered about his air fare , and gave him some coffee . |
| 2 | For the purposes of the tape I think er we ought to explain that our management meetings are always run on very serious lines with no , no jokes allowed , er first of all I think we should just place on the record that this meeting is being taped everybody recognises that , and the purposes are for to analyse everybody 's linguistic ability and later on Tracy 's going to recite her piece her presentation for the purpose of the tape . |
| 3 | A wooden doll was made or found to contain her bones ; and round it gold plates and gold wire were set in the ninth century . |
| 4 | The devils urged that she should kill herself and be damned with them in Hell , and it was evidently to contain her attempts at suicide that she was ‘ bound and kept with strength day and night ’ ; even then she ‘ rived the skin on her body against her heart with her nails most spitefully ’ . |
| 5 | Deliberately , she chattered and laughed , not trying to contain her excitement . |
| 6 | Still , as she made her way up the narrow staircase to the agency office at five minutes to ten , it was hard to contain her excitement . |
| 7 | My mother tried to contain her frustrations . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper . |
| 9 | Mrs Mallory stepped out of the doctor 's into the sunlight and bounded down the hill , scarcely able to contain her glee . |
| 10 | Forcing herself to stay still , not to complain because her mother had always said complaining was bad , she waited , trying to contain her impatience so it did n't spill out from her body and spoil everything . |
| 11 | She did n't know how she was going to contain her impatience , but it would not do to make an enemy of Mrs Whittaker . |
| 12 | Thankful that , though her ankle was still painful if she put any weight on it , her foot was n't swollen , Luce put on a pair of yellow flat-heeled sandals and , unable to contain her impatience a moment longer , picked up the crutch and headed down the corridor . |
| 13 | Theda smouldered , trying to contain her anger . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's nothing to do with it , ’ she replied chokily , barely able to contain her anger . |
| 15 | She had the woman stripped and covered with a blanket in moments , and bit her lip to contain her anger . |
| 16 | She will have to contain her emotion … otherwise John will guess the reason why . |
| 17 | Swinging her boots up on to the Indian bedspread to indicate her lack of concern . |
| 18 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
| 19 | Demeter travelled swiftly to meet her daughter |
| 20 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 21 | Oh aye , you ought to meet her mum ! |
| 22 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |
| 23 | In turn , this is likely to produce a commitment from her to do the utmost to meet her obligations to the job . |
| 24 | And Daisy , the gentle , the endlessly kind , who never refused anyone anything ( and yet was to show herself later so strong , so tenacious of purpose , so immovable in her loyalties ) , gave up whatever else she had planned — and went to meet her fate . |
| 25 | Anne 's mother seemed asleep so Anne left her and went quickly to meet her friend . |
| 26 | Nigel got taken home to meet her parents next . |
| 27 | In those days Garth was a merchant banker , and she took him home to meet her parents , who thought he was wonderful . |
| 28 | She insisted on driving with Murphy to Bodmin to meet her parents . |
| 29 | I 'm driving up to Pollensa tomorrow to pick her up and then we 're flying off to Madrid to meet her parents … |
| 30 | It was a hot , sunny day in summer when Cathy and I rode out to meet her cousin . |